Stromal interaction molecule 1 (STIM1) is a transmembrane protein that is essential for store-operated Ca2+ entry, a process of extracellular Ca2+ influx in response to the depletion of Ca2+ stores in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) (reviewed in [1Luik R.M. Lewis R.S. New insights into the molecular mechanisms of store-operated Ca2+ signaling in T cells.Trends Mol. Med. 2007; 13: 103-107Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (51) Google Scholar, 2Putney Jr., J.W. New molecular players in capacitative Ca2+ entry.J. Cell Sci. 2007; 120: 1959-1965Crossref PubMed Scopus (131) Google Scholar, 3Hogan P.G. Rao A. Dissecting ICRAC, a store-operated calcium current.Trends Biochem. Sci. 2007; 32: 235-245Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (100) Google Scholar, 4Wu M.M. Luik R.M. Lewis R.S. Some assembly required: Constructing the elementary units of store-operated Ca(2+) entry.Cell Calcium. 2007; 42: 163-172Crossref PubMed Scopus (68) Google Scholar]). STIM1 localizes predominantly to the ER; upon Ca2+ release from the ER, STIM1 translocates to the ER-plasma membrane junctions and activates Ca2+ channels (reviewed in [1Luik R.M. Lewis R.S. New insights into the molecular mechanisms of store-operated Ca2+ signaling in T cells.Trends Mol. Med. 2007; 13: 103-107Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (51) Google Scholar, 2Putney Jr., J.W. New molecular players in capacitative Ca2+ entry.J. Cell Sci. 2007; 120: 1959-1965Crossref PubMed Scopus (131) Google Scholar, 3Hogan P.G. Rao A. Dissecting ICRAC, a store-operated calcium current.Trends Biochem. Sci. 2007; 32: 235-245Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (100) Google Scholar, 4Wu M.M. Luik R.M. Lewis R.S. Some assembly required: Constructing the elementary units of store-operated Ca(2+) entry.Cell Calcium. 2007; 42: 163-172Crossref PubMed Scopus (68) Google Scholar]). Here, we show that STIM1 directly binds to the microtubule-plus-end-tracking protein EB1 and forms EB1-dependent comet-like accumulations at the sites where polymerizing microtubule ends come in contact with the ER network. Therefore, the previously observed tubulovesicular motility of GFP-STIM1 [5Baba Y. Hayashi K. Fujii Y. Mizushima A. Watarai H. Wakamori M. Numaga T. Mori Y. Iino M. Hikida M. Kurosaki T. Coupling of STIM1 to store-operated Ca2+ entry through its constitutive and inducible movement in the endoplasmic reticulum.Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 2006; 103: 16704-16709Crossref PubMed Scopus (259) Google Scholar] is not a motor-based movement but a traveling wave of diffusion-dependent STIM1 concentration in the ER membrane. STIM1 overexpression strongly stimulates ER extension occurring through the microtubule "tip attachment complex" (TAC) mechanism [6Waterman-Storer C.M. Salmon E.D. Endoplasmic reticulum membrane tubules are distributed by microtubules in living cells using three distinct mechanisms.Curr. Biol. 1998; 8: 798-806Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar, 7Waterman-Storer C.M. Gregory J. Parsons S.F. Salmon E.D. Membrane/microtubule tip attachment complexes (TACs) allow the assembly dynamics of plus ends to push and pull membranes into tubulovesicular networks in interphase Xenopus egg extracts.J. Cell Biol. 1995; 130: 1161-1169Crossref PubMed Scopus (87) Google Scholar], a process whereby an ER tubule attaches to and elongates together with the EB1-positive end of a growing microtubule. Depletion of STIM1 and EB1 decreases TAC-dependent ER protrusion, indicating that microtubule growth-dependent concentration of STIM1 in the ER membrane plays a role in ER remodeling.